Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the father of Japanese folklore studies, was born in this town of 20,000 ...

her Japanese urban legend counterpart is one of the most infamous urban legends in Japan, even having popular horror films ...

The story is based on Japanese folklore and tales about the Mujina ... and the transformation of the Mujina is often portrayed as a straight horror story, with the Mujina sometimes transforming ...

In Japanese folklore, the fox plays tricks on humans ... Those stories seem incomparably gentler than the kaidan horror story of the present age. --The Asahi Shimbun, July 25 Vox Populi, Vox ...